Curtain rod and shade stick



J. G. BOWMAN CURTAIN ROD AND SHADE STICK March 5, 1929.

Filed D60. 1, 1925 w w n 2 M M M m n Patented Mar. 5, 1929.

UNITED STATES V v 1,703,862 PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. BOWMAN, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO C.HASELTINE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

CURTAIN ROD AND SHADE STICK.-

Application filed December The invention relates to new construction incloth, or other web fastenings, which will at the same time serve as acurtain rod or shade stick, and provide means whereby this i'od may bemounted in a novel way, while the cloth is gripped therein. Additionalobjects, advantages and features of invention reside in theconstruction, arrangement and combination of parts, as may be understoodfrom the following description and accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 shows an embodiment of a curtain rod in elevation, as mountedupon a window with a curtain engaged therein;

Figure 2 is a cross section of Figure 3;

Figure 3 is an elevation of a shade stick or the like embodying myinvention; 7

Figure 4 is a fragmentaryperspective of the cover and clamp plate VFigure 5 is a similar view of the rod 15.

There is illustrated a sheet metal body rod 15, the blank for which maybe substantially rectangular in form, and has two opposite paralleledges recurved inwardly to form opposite lip portions 16 and 17 parallelto the body of the blank a short distance, the lip 16 being somewhatlonger than the lip 17. The rod thus has a channel between the lips, andthese lips are spaced from the body of the plate sufilciently toaccommodate goods and tongue of a complementary cover plate, as will bedescribed.

In practice, the body 15 has been made of eighteen gauge metal, thedistance between the lines of bending and adjacent opposite edges beingfrom three quarters to one inch, while the length of the lip 17 has beenmade approximately one-eighth of an inch, and the length of the lip 16nearly or quite onequarter of an inch.

.There is shown a combined closure plate and locking plate 90 adapted tobe applied to the assembly of a rod, or stick such as involved inFigures 1 and 3, a plate 90 is formed. very much like the rod 15, but atintervals its more extended inturned edge portions are slit and bent toform tongues 91-432, recurved outwardly and backwardly, soas to formedge portions, which may be inserted under the lips 16 and 17 of the rod15. The lips 91 are longer than the ones 92, located at the oppositeedge, and after the goods is laid over the rod 15, this plate 90 is laidover the goods with the tongues against the goods, the long tongues 91being 1, 1925. Serial No. 72,587.

located adjacent the long lip of the rod. The plate 90 is then pressedupon so as to force the tongues 91 and goods into the channel of the rodand the plate 90 then moved so as to slide the lips 91 under the longlip 16 of the rod, after which the short tongues 92 are similarlypressed against the goods so that they enter the channel of the body 15when the plate 90 is moved transversely upon the rod 15 so as to engagethe tongue 92 under the short lip 17 of the rod, after the manner shownin Figure 2. The short lip of the rod and the short tongues of the plate90 are preferably located at the lower side of the assembly when it isapplied to the lower edge of a curtain shade, so that the weight of theplate 90 will hold it in engaged position, in addition to the efi'ectcaused by the shade itself, which tends also to move the parts to properengaging position after the tongues are inserted in the channel and willalso retain them in such position, by the weight of the combinedassembly. The ends of the plate 90 may have tongues 93 formed on thebody portion extending from the ends and turned inwardly over the endsof the device, so as to close the open ends of the plate 90 and also therod 15 when the parts are assembled.

In Figure 3 an ornamental shade stick produced by the utilization ofmyinvention is shown, in which the lower edge of the shade material 84may be secured and also entirely concealed. This device embodies twosections in one of which the lower edge portion of the shade 84 issecured by the interlocking of the other.

In addition, a split sleeve 78 of short length is slid over the stickassembly, with the open side uppermost and receiving the shade 84therethrough as'shown in Figure 3. This sleeve is moved to a centralposition on the assembled shade stick. A ring 88 is engaged loosely inthe sleeve at the lower side, whereby the shade may be manipulated. Thisrod and stick assembly may of course be applied to curtains of variouskinds, as well as shades, and may be employed in various situationswhere it is necessary to apply a rigid reinforcement of the end of asheet of material A curtain rod and the like comprising a member ofsheet metal haying opposite longitudinal edges inturned to form lips inspaced relation to the body of the member, one lip being longer than theother, and a second member similar to and over the open-side of thefirst member, and having in addition extensions from its inturnededges-2 long 7 one from the longer lip and a short one from the shorterlip,- said extensionsengaged removably under the respective first namedlips, the extreme edges of the extenslons being spaced :1. distancecorresponding to the distance from the bight of the long lip of thefirst named member to the extremity of the short lip of the first'namedmember, for the 15

